Students love any opportunity to leave the regular constraints of the classroom. When I taught CW in high school, I simply assigned the students to various areas of the building, especially emphasizing those high traffic "interesting" areas, such as the music corridor, the commons / cafeteria, the office, the library. When I taught CW at the university level, we went into the mall area of campus, a high traffic spot with many stone benches and swaths of lawn (complete with Frisbee players and squirrels).
You can have this change of venue be accompanied with instructions as simple as: "Write for the twenty minutes we're outdoors. See what you come up with."
When doing this activity with high schoolers, I gave them a chart, and they were to track what they specifically observed, paying attention only to the sounds they heard. They would block off certain time periods, and pay close attention to what was being said, what extra sounds were heard, etc. with the strict instructions of not being involved in any scene--they were to be invisible, so to speak.
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